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Question for the parents out there: What did you do with the used pregnancy test after you got a positive?

I ask because one of my friends posted on fb today that she kept a test from a year and a half ago in a ziploc bag waiting for April Fools Day this year to give it to her husband (they have 3yo twins and a 9 month old).

I'm seriously icked out at the thought of keeping a pee-covered pregnancy test in a ziploc in your drawer for that long (or ... at all ... ) but wonder if this is grosser for me because I'm not a parent.

ETA: I guess she got his husband pretty good though. He was eating when she showed him and he actually choked on his food.

[This message edited by Amazonia at 9:47 PM, April 1st (Monday)]

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Mama_of_3_Kids♀ 26651Member # 26651

Posted: 9:44 PM, April 1st (Monday), 2013

I threw them away Then again, I am kinda a spaz when it comes to cleaning, bodily fluids, food, etc

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Kajem♀ 36134Member # 36134

Posted: 9:48 PM, April 1st (Monday), 2013

Tossed mine...but I did score one with a sharpy marker to look like a positive result.

X was NOT amused.

WE had twins, single, single. With the twins the line was deep pink the singles were much lighter. The fake positive was purple.

This was after having tubal ligation. Like I said, he was not amused.

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GrievingMommy♀ 28127Member # 28127

Posted: 10:06 PM, April 1st (Monday), 2013

After trying for 4 years and IVF, I kept my tests that I peed on five years ago. lol They were the first and only positive tests I'd ever had (and ever will).

I have them tucked away with the bit of baby stuff I have saved. I don't share those with people.

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roughroadahead♀ 36060Member # 36060

Posted: 8:32 AM, April 2nd (Tuesday), 2013

Embarrassed to admit that I have every single positive test I ever had. I even moved them to the apartment with me. I kept the tests from the miscarried pregnancies and the pregnancies with my children.

I didn't keep them, but I know lots of people who did. To be honest, once you've been a parent for awhile you've dealt with so much pee and poop that really the pee on a stick in a Ziploc baggie sounds quite hygenic and pleasant

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Dreamboat♀ 10506Member # 10506

Posted: 8:52 AM, April 2nd (Tuesday), 2013

Tossed it without a second thought.

Well, after spending an hour starring at it and thinking "OMG! I'm pregnant. What do I do NOW??!!" Mind you this was a planned pregnancy and I was still freaked out.

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dameia♀ 36072Member # 36072

Posted: 9:15 AM, April 2nd (Tuesday), 2013

I threw them away. But I gotta say, if she left if out for a few minutes after peeing on it, the stick does dry. I can't imagine someone sticking a wet test in a baggie. And, remember, pee is fairly sterile, at least that's what I've been told.

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Lucky2HaveMe♀ 13333Member # 13333

Posted: 9:24 AM, April 2nd (Tuesday), 2013

20+ years ago they weren't really *reliable* - so I never used them. But if I had, I don't think I would have saved 'em.

But I do like the April Fool's joke idea!

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CrappyLife♂ 37630Member # 37630

Posted: 9:59 AM, April 2nd (Tuesday), 2013

I didn't keep them, but I know lots of people who did. To be honest, once you've been a parent for awhile you've dealt with so much pee and poop that really the pee on a stick in a Ziploc baggie sounds quite hygenic and pleasant

Didn't realize so many people kept them. I would have never thought to do that when my son was conceived. Then again, I am not that sentimental of a person either. Having my son is proof enough that the pregnancy was real.

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Holly-Isis♀ 13447Member # 13447

Posted: 12:47 PM, April 2nd (Tuesday), 2013

Somewhere I have a Polaroid (remember those?) with a pic of a stuffed animal and the positive pregnancy test for DS.

Not the actual stick.

I couldn't tell you with DD...those poor second kids don't get quite the same documentation most of the time...

But she sure knows her birth story. Even told some guy at the pool last summer.

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Undefinabl3♀ 36883Member # 36883

Posted: 1:57 PM, April 2nd (Tuesday), 2013

/blush...

I actually have kept both of mine...i guess I just figured that since it has a cover and I wiped down the ouside, that i wouldnt be as ICK...